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Berkeley, Alice and Lowndes, Susan English Art in Portugal
Portugal Edicoes Inapa 1994 9729019657 / 9789729019654 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
This beautiful book is 'AS NEW' but with a flaw which originated at the printers: some (around 10) of the center pages were not cut properly and are ever so slightly torn at the top of the pages. This does not affect any of the color plates. Rich green cloth cover. embossed with authors' names and title. 155 pp. With 140 color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index and Portuguese synopsis at the end. For the first time this book brings together English works of art set in the context of the special relationship between England and Portugal.
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30.00 EUR
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Clout, Hugh (editor) The Times History of London New Edition
London The Times Books 2000 0583337511 / 9780583337519 First Thus Hard Cover As New As New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
192 pp. with etymology of London place-names and bibliography. Includes more than 300 maps and illustrations tracing the city from pre history to present: color plates, maps, diagrams, tables, and black and white photographs.
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25.00 EUR
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Evans, George Ewart The Days That We Have Seen
Devon, England Readers Union 1975 Hard Cover Good Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
224 pp. A book about oral history works with valuable recorded talks by old men and women in East Anglian villages about their tools and customs and language .
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12.00 EUR
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Graves, Robert and Hodge, Alan The Long Weekend A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939
London Faber and Faber 1950 Cloth Fine Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
472 pp. with index. Stated Second Editon with special 'Note to Second Edition' by the authors. Bottom of the pages are an attractive rough cut. Binding is brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Dust jacket is chipped at top and bottom, pages are somewhat yellowed but clean and tight overall with some foxing and spotting on the top edge of the pages.
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50.00 EUR
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Hazelwood, Nick Savage The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
London Hodder & Stoughton 2000 0340739118 / 9780340739112 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
In 1830 Jemmy Button was sold into slavery from Tierra del Fuego. He was taken to England where he became a Christian. Befriended by Royalty & Charles Darwin, he returned to South America on the Beagle charged with "civilising" and bringing God to his homeland.
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35.00 EUR
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Hill, John China Dragons
London Blandford 1991 0713722754 / 9780713722758 First Edition Hard Cover As New As New 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
A Rifle Company at War, Burma 1944-45
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Jarman, Derek The Last of England
London Constable 1987 0094680809 / 9780094680807 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
249 pp. Glossy pages slightly yellowed around the page edges. The dust jacket is bent and torn a bit at the top. Many photographs made during the filming "The Last of England" in 1986, during which Derek Jarman began writing this explanation of " his own personal journey towards this latest creative enterprise". It contains diary entries, interviews and notes for the script. Jarman writes about the cinema industry, the moral and personal consequences of the AIDs virus, and the down side of Thatcher's Britain..
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Leyton, Elliott Men of Blood Murder in Modern England
London Constable 1995 0094748608 / 9780094748606 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
261 pp. About homicide in England. 10 chapters with illustrative case studies in detail, including spouse and lover killings, murder within the family, acquaintance murders and stranger murders. In conclusion, the author gives a cultural and social explanation of the puzzling and distinctive shape of murder in England today.
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10.00 EUR
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Mountfield, David Castles and Castle Towns of Great Britain
London Studio Editions 1993 1851709487 / 9781851709489 First Edition Hard Cover As New Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
128 pp. A fascinating tour of historic and unique buildings. Profusely illustrated with over 100 illustrations of reproductions of engraved prints, ground-plans and maps; the majority of which are coloured. Fifty-three castles have been selected to represent every part of Great Britain, and span the five centuries that marked the great age of castle building. The selection includes such famous landmarks as the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, as well as lesser-known fortresses, such as the now-ruined Brough Castle in Cumbria. Each one is illustrated with hand-coloured prints and engravings, while ground-plans and town maps show the relationship between the castles and their surrounding areas.
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15.00 EUR
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Parkman, Francis The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Boston, Massachussetts Little, Brown and Company 1886 Hard Cover Fair Fair Ex-Library
Two title pages 'France and England in North America Part Second' and 'The Jesuits in North America'. The binding is loose, some pages are starting to come out. Has a mylar cover over dark blue boards. Classic work about the European colonization of North America and the conflicts between imperial powers of the day.
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35.00 EUR
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